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The Aston Villa Old Stars team was established in 1960 and has played between twenty and twenty-five fundraising matches in every year since throughout the UK, in Ireland, the Channel Islands, Cyprus, Holland, France, Spain and Germany.

Since 1960, the names of the former players to have appeared in the Aston Villa Old Stars team reads like an Aston Villa Who’s Who? The following is just a small selection of the great names to have represented the team since its formation.

Charlie Aitken	Peter Aldis	Ron Atkinson	Paul Birch	Andy Blair
John Burridge	Harry Burrows	Much Callaghan	Larry Canning	Frank Carrodus
Vic Crowe	Jim Cumbes	George Cummings	Alan Deakin	John Deehan
Johnny Dixon	Dickie Dorsett	Jimmy Dugdale	Allan Evans	Trevor Ford
John Gidman	Brian Godfrey	Andy Gray	Chico Hamilton	Eric Houghton
Steve Hunt	Brian Little	Stan Lynn	Jimmy MacEwan	Johnny MacLeod
Bobby McDonald	Peter McParland	Con Martin	Sammy Morgan	Dennis Mortimer
Frank Moss	Chris Nicholl	Ian Olney	Harry Parkes	Leighton Phillips
Chris Price	Cyrille Regis	Bruce Rioch	Ken Roberts	John Robson
Davie Rudge	Joe Rutherford	Pat Saward	Jackie Sewell	Gary Shaw
Nigel Sims	John Sleeuwenhoek	Gordon Smith	Leslie Smith	Simon Stainrod
Kenny Swain	Bobby Thomson	Mike Tindall	Fred Turnbull	Peter Withe

Added to these are the players in the current squad:

Dale Belford	Darren Bradley	Des Bremner	Mark Burke	John Capaldi
John Chambers	Stan Collymore	Gordon Cowans	Tony Daley	Mark Delaney
Derek Dudley	Steve Froggatt	Colin Gibson	Pat Heard	Tommy Johnson
Phil King	Mark Kinsella	Ivor Linton	Ken McNaught	Paul Merson
Tony Morley	Dave Norton	Brendan Ormsby	Garry Parker	John Pearson
Ben Petty	Gavin Price	Neil Rioch	Phil Robinson	Dean Saunders
Bryan Small	Nigel Spink	Steve Staunton	Gary Stirland	Ian Taylor
Shaun Teale	Garry Thompson	Mark Walters	Ian Ward	Gary Williams

Many of these former professional footballers have achieved the highest honours available in the game and in today’s multi-billion pound professional football environment, it is highly commendable to see so many great players giving their time and commitment in support of a deserving cause, free of any personal payment whatsoever.

The Aston Villa Old Stars team has helped to raise over £4 million for charitable and deserving causes and they are, without doubt, the leading former players team in the UK.

The current Manager of the Aston Villa Old Stars team is former Aston Villa & Northern Ireland international centre-half Chris Nicholl who in 2008 became only the 6th manager in the teams 50 year history. Previous managers were Leslie Smith, Harry Kenning, Stan Arthurs, Dennis Jackson and John Chambers.

If you are interested in organising a fundraising fixture with this legendary team, please contact us.

Aston Villa Old Stars is sponsored by FragranceMad.com (see full details in the sponsors section)